· Public charity
Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc
The mission of the florida association of agencies serving the blind is to serve as a united voice and be the organizational support empowering private agencies serving floridans with blindness and visual impairment to provide state-of-the-art professional vision rehabilitation services which enhance the quality of individual and…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIGHTHOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $230,490 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY | $224,771 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF THE PALM BEACHES INC | $222,916 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $164,559 |
| CONKLIN DAVIS CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC | $154,186 |
| FLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $145,316 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER | $142,774 |
| NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE | $123,520 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF PINELLAS | $119,917 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND | $115,700 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND INC | $112,495 |
| INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC | $94,752 |
| LIGHTHOUSE VISION LOSS EDUCATION CENTER | $11,780 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LOLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +140%
- LCLIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $953k · revenue +78%
- LOLIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $680k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- MLMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INCone grant, 2018 · $58k · revenue -9%
- FSFLORIDA STATE COLLEGE AT JACKSONVILLE VISION EDUCATION & REHAB CENTERone grant, 2023 · $7k
- FOFLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $890 · revenue +90%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide people with low vision the services and resources that empower independent and productive living. ensight's programs are designed to help our patients overcome barriers to living life independently and safely. hands-on programs…
Empowerment through employment for blind or visually impaired individuals.
The colorado center for the blind provides training which enables blind individuals to lead independent productive lives.
The Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired's mission is to eliminate vision loss as the barrier to employment, community participation or quality of life. We are the only statewide training and resource center for vision…
The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.
The sight center provides a unique blend of specialized vision rehabilitation programs and services that can help people of all ages work, learn, play and live independently with permanent vision loss. primary services include low vision…
Visions is a 98-year-old nonprofit vision rehabilitation and social service organization that trains low income people of all ages experiencing blindness and severe vision loss to lead independent and active lives at work, in their homes…
To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.
Fostering vibrant lives for people with vision loss and other challenges to independence. to accomplish this mission, the lighthouse operates many different programs, serving people of all ages in northern mn and northwestern wi. as a…
We empower people who are blind, deafblind, and blind with other disabilities by creating diverse, sustainable, and meaningful employment opportunities.
To promote independence, community, and equity created by and with blind and low vision people.
Rehabilitation center for the multihandicapped blind. vari- ious life skills, orientation, mobility and vocational train ing is taught. approximately 80 multihandicapped blind stu- dents are enrolled in extended community based services.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc and the most unlike its peers is Florida State College at Jacksonville Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Conklin Davis Center for the Visually Impaired Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MANA-SOTA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds Florida State College at Jacksonville Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.